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Won on Ebay the other night:

The National - Abel 7" (Only missing one 7" to complete my National collection!!)

Also recently got:

United Nations - S/T (Translucent red /1000)

Mae - The Everglow

Brand New - YFW (Clear tour press /500, acquired at bamboozle last weekend)

Blacklisted - No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me (Orange and Black Splatter /1929) and Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God (Clear with Blue Haze /1000)

And a lot of other cool stuff. Now I have like 20$ until I get paid in a week and a half haha

Looks pretty rad. Great novel and this dudes other films were pretty sweet (esp. Australia).

Looks sweet. Will be seeing!

Anyone know when the vinyl is supposed to ship? Pre-ordered ages ago.

Came thinking about this ....

Disappointed that my eyes fooled me.

If anyone would be interested in buying an extra I will buy it off you for 80$ (60$ +10$ in shipping twice) next week.

All of my dinero is going to Bamboozle this weekend :/

This could be pretty rad but I also feel like it will be just a lot of pretty images with music behind it and lacking any sort of central idea / theme. To say "death is the theme" is kinda cheating and cliche. Is it going to say anything new and original about the subject? Or just merely emotionally toy the audience it feeling something without any clear objectives or concerns?

Either way, will definitely watch.

Rad! I just picked up Failure On a couple weeks ago. Brings me back to high school!

I saw the orig line up play through a lot of moon is down at Bamboozle last year. Real rad they are making it a thing now.

If Meanderthal isn't in your collection, what are you doing.

Recently reorganized!

Real fans wait until the album drops. #jaded #truefan #posers

I feel the sentiment around here. Since high school I've been in and out of community college (I had the grades to go to a better school, but not the money), working numerous different restaurant jobs up to 60 hours a week, and living paycheck to paycheck. I've lived in 5 or 6 different places with upwards of 30 different roommates over the years. I'm back at my moms place because I was tired of working so much and still having no money. I've gone from not drinking at all to getting wasted every night of the week and back to none (Now I drink moderately, depending on the situation).

It's really a series of ups and downs for me. Summers are generally pretty good, winters destroy me. This happens on a smaller scale from day to day and week to week. I actually had a pretty good week up until the past two days where I worked 20 hours (we were slammmmeeddd) in about 36 and my quasi girlfriend broke up with me. But so it goes right?

My outlet has always been writing. It's how I've kept most of my sanity and gotten everything that's bundled in my head out in some tangible form. Writing stories, poems, journaling, etc. has kept my finger off the trigger and my hands away from pills and drugs for years. Of course making a career out of that is what I want, but it's damn near impossible in this culture of cheap entertainment (that's another discussion).

My point is that art (be it music, stories, film, crafting, whatever) is the only way to escape all this shit while still keeping what makes you human - your emotion. So find your artistic outlet!

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When I was 18 I found a crate of old records in my parents basement. I took the crate with me when I moved out to go to college as a curiosity. I had always seen old, tattered records at thrift stores and started to hear about vinyl being this new "cool" format (Ironic eh?) that had better quality and all the things that have been mentioned throughout this thread. So I was interested. It kind of started as a way to connect to my distant parents as well as to something that was "cool".

As I've been drawn more and more into it, it's taken on a much more important aspect to me. Artistically speaking, I think that good bands/singers/etc. make albums, not songs. In our fast paced world of 3 1/2 minute sounds, it's so refreshing to put on The Thursday/Envy split or a Godspeed! record and hear all the sounds mold together into one giant picture. It's the difference between reading the blurb on the back of a book and the whole thing, or watching a trailer of a film and the film itself. If the digital age of music was to take over, bands would just release singles, not albums, and the "experience" of a work of art would be compressed from a novel to a blog.

And of course there is the collecting aspect and being apart of something that is different and fun. It is really cool to have something that's pressed out of 200 or 500 or whatever. There is a connection to the music and the other people who own it that can't be said for some easy downloaded file or CD bought at Best Buy.

Vinyl has become very important to me over the years, and I'm excited for my kid(s) to find my crates of records and become inspired like I have.

This is insane. Pure and simple.

I've read Slaughterhouse 5 and Cat's Cradle. Both are great!

New Torche album is amazing.

If not the best album to come out this year.

There's some real sweet cliffs to jump off of into the ocean if you're into that. I believe the neighborhood is "Sunset cliffs".

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I just read through 90% of that Ice Nine Kills thread. So hilarious.

I met that band at Warped '08 if I remember correctly. Hilarious dudes. Total idiots.

same here. Got Pelican and The Saddest Landscape a few days ago. great packing. Thanks guys!

Great! Thanks for the orders everyone!

I also got a few records from them. Great packing and super quick shipping! Thanks!

Dude your blog is really awesome. Great set up and pictures. I'm rather OCD about cataloging my stuff as well, but you got me beat by far haha.

*Edit: And your collection is really, really legit.

I've never heard of most of the bands in the collection, but I do agree that the way it's set up is super rad.